fox niner (Has nothing to do with MERS, but.....)
Please Calvin, enlighten us. What gear raising episode are you referring to?
OK, at the risk of being labelled a traitor, let me weigh in on this. Actually, it happened and we pilots should not have had to hide from the truth.. The management and our CASA want to keep it under wraps because of industrial issues.
Sometime ago, a very tired co-pilot had a brain fart almost at landing flare and raised the landing gear. This incident was on PPrune but " for some very interesting and conspiratorial reasons ", the thread was removed!
Why the brain fart? He snapped out of a micro-sleep and thought they just took off! The punishing night cargo schedules were a main cause and now you know why it is under wraps.
To his credit the expat skipper reacted admirably and saved the aircraft with a quick aborted landing maneuver, waving off with a feet or so to spare. Both pilots were docked because of an " administrative misdemeanor " on their part.
The powers that be want it to be under tight wraps because it can open up a whole vat of worms. 'nuff said.
Better copy this and stash it somewhere...this post ain't gonna last long. Then when it is removed, we will know more about this great pretence we call freedom of................